$22.8 million
"$22.8 million award in botched circumcision?"The Atlanta
Constitution, March 12, 1991. ("Northside Hospital will pay $22.8
million to a boy severely injured in a circumcision accident at
the hospital nearly six years ago ... The child had his penis
severely burned in the mishap ... A second infant who underwent
a circumcision at Northside on the same day also was severely
injured. That child, known as Baby Doe, underwent a sex-change
operation shortly after the accident, and consequently is now a
female person, who has been rendered sterile and completely
incapable of reproduction, ")

$3.85 million
"Surgery ends in coma; wife gets $3.85 million" Trenton,
N.J. (UPI) "A $3.85 million out-of-court settlement was awarded
to the wife of a man who has been in a coma since a circumcision
operation four years ago." [Source? Date?]

$2.75 million
"Family gets $2.75 million in wrongful surgery suit"Lake Charles American Press, May 28, 1986. ("The family of
a young boy
whose penis had to be amputated after it was severely burned
during a routine circumcision performed at ... W.O. Moss
Regional Hospital on Feb. 2, 1984.")

$1.2 million
"Boy gets $1.2 million for circumcision error"Asbury Park
Press, 11/30/95. (AP) "NEW YORK: An 8-year-old Russian immigrant
whose penis was shortened and disfigured during circumcision has
reached a $1.2 million settlement with several defendants,
including a Lakewood rabbi who performed the operation ... The
botched operation occurred when the boy underwent a Jewish ritual
operation five years ago ... The boy's lawyers maintained that
the rabbi who performed the ritual, known as a bris, amputated 80
percent of the head of his penis."

$750,000
"Child awarded damages"Leader Post Regina, SK [Canada],
November 1975. ("SEATTLE (AP) A three-year-old child who is
undergoing sex change operations because he was badly burned
during a routine circumcision has been awarded $750,000 ... a
military doctor ... burned the baby's genital area so badly
that physicians eventually advised changing the child's sex to
female ... The greatest danger, doctors said, is of deep
psychological trauma if the child learns she was born a male.")

$450,000
"Boy in coma most of his 6 years dies"The State, Columbia,
South Carolina, 7/10/95. "A boy who was in a coma for more than
six years while a legal battle raged around him has died ...
Allen A. Ervin was born in July 1985 and had been on life support
since December 1985, when his brain was damaged from oxygen
deprivation during circumcision. He died at Spartanburg Regional
Medical Center on Wednesday, three weeks before his 7th birthday ...
The anesthesiologists who attended to Allen during the
circumcision settled the case for $435,000 and agreed to lifetime
payment of his medical bills."

$36,000
Medical Malpractice: Circumcision / Verdict: $36,400
"9/12/92: Plaintiff, a minor child, was having a circumcision
performed by the Defendant. The Defendant cut off the tip of the
young boy's penis resulting in disfigurement but without loss of
function." Warren Communications Tri-Service, 5/8/95.

"MD sued for cutting short man's sex life"Ottawa Citizen,
3/4/88. "TORONTO (CP) A couple is suing a doctor claiming a
circumcision he performed left the man unable to have sex ...
The couple, from Hamilton, say the 1984 operation excessively
foreshortened the man's penis and left him unable to achieve an
erection or ejaculate."